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Bioterrorism exercises

2005: The bioterrorist cookbook

By Malcolm Dando | Biosecurity

Protests rally against Ohio's anti-coronavirus measures.

The world has seen protests against epidemic lockdowns before. These are different

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

The black death. Watercolor by Monro Orr

Black plague, Spanish flu, smallpox: All hold lessons for coronavirus

By Ibrahim Al-Marashi | Biosecurity

Children getting immunized at a health station in New York City.

Lessons for dealing with coronavirus: A tale of two cities—and smallpox

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Seth Lederman, the CEO of Tonix against a backdrop of vaccinia virus.

A biotech firm made a smallpox-like virus on purpose. Nobody seems to care

By Gregory D. Koblentz | Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

A biohazard suit wearing researcher.

AI-controlled nuclear weapons, smallpox labs, and nuclear disinformation: The best of 2019 in disruptive tech coverage

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

The building housing smallpox-causing virus at the VECTOR research center.

What happened after an explosion at a Russian disease research lab called VECTOR?

By Filippa Lentzos | Analysis, Biosecurity

Smallpox virus virions. Credit: Fred Murphy / Sylvia Whitfield / CDC.

An explosion rocked a Russian research facility known for housing the smallpox virus

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

The Trump’s administration’s misaligned approach to national biodefense

By Reid Kirby | Biosecurity

Laurie Garrett: Reporting on biosecurity from America to Zaire

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